Equity in Community Arts & Culture with Jazmyn Scott

“I’m a Langston baby. I grew up coming in and out of that space,” says Jazmyn Scott, referring to Seattle’s historic Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. Now, as the director of programs and partnerships for Langston, the non-profit arts org that leads programming for the larger organization, Jazmyn is continuing a life embedded in Black arts and culture and ensuring that others have that same access.

Trae and Jazmyn talk about coming up in a family of radio-makers, creatives, and movement organizers and what it takes to program and produce a Black arts institute in such a way that pays that lineage back, and forward.

You can find out more about Langston and their offerings and check out their offshoot, the Black Film Festival.

This week’s Chime In is especially personal; Jazmyn’s mom, Vivian Phillips (herself a venerated arts, culture, and media leader), introduces her daughter by way of an idea she sees so clearly in her: “serve your people first.” Vivian co-hosts a podcast called DoubleXposure and runs an arts platform called Art Noir.